Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 15:29:06 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small MAKEDEV bug Message-ID: <39171582.BD855B3E@vangelderen.org> References: <3913D862.960037A1@altavista.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005070543520.8955-100000@besplex.bde.org> <20000507165946.F86113@lucifer.bart.nl> <20000507104224.D35845@dragon.nuxi.com> <3915C38B.1E8614AB@vangelderen.org> <20000508115806.C51478@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > > On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 03:27:07PM -0400, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > > Or just settle for a more intuitive solution: > > MAKEDEV acd2 creates /dev/acd2 > > MAKEDEV 2 acd creates /dev/acd[01] > > which would allow for "MAKEDEV 64 da" and "MAKEDEV 256 pty" > > I agree with this syntax and after sending my message to you, was sitting > there thinking "MAKEDEV <num_of_devs> <dev_name>" would make a really > nice clear syntax. If you can get BDE's buy-in and other BSD > traditionalists I think this would be great. The good part of this solution is that it's backwards compatible. If the first argument is an integer and the second a device name without a suffix we do the new thing, if not we revert to the traditional behaviour. bde: what do you think? Cheers, Jeroen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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